RITA DI SANTO points out the social experience of exploitation and oppression that inform the popular winners at this year’s festival
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Blinkers on a dissenting view
Peter Kennard is a brilliantly polemical artist yet his new book reveals the inadequacies of his political perspective, says NICK WRIGHT
PETER MASON is tickled by a new book and exhibition that mine the rotten anachronism of the monarchy for laughs
A Nazi zeppelin whodunnit, death amidst detoxification, a twistaholic’s delight, and noir fiction for criminals
STEVE JOHNSON salutes the mellifluous tones and clear-minded political message of a uniquely relevant Birmingham-born singer-songwriter
STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
Peter Kennard: Visual Dissent
by Peter Kennard
(Pluto Press, £19.99)
“IT IS not surprising that photomontage is associated particularly with the political left, because it is ideally suited to the expression of the Marxist dialectic.”
Thus wrote Dawn Ades in her authoritative 1976 book Photomontage, the revised edition of which carries commentary on two of Peter Kennard’s most distinctive assemblies — the 1980 Haywain with Cruise Missiles and his frightening 1982 photomontage Defenders to Death.
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TOMASZ PIERSCIONEK relishes a collection of cartoons that focus on Palestine from the period 1917 to 1948